Our Business Is

Brush Clearing & Blackberry Removal in Portland, OR

About EBC

Why Choose Extreme Brush Clearing

Extreme Brush Clearing has been in business for over twenty years, offering brush clearing services in the Portland, OR region. We bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to every job, and we're willing to go the extra mile for our customers. When you retain our services you are dealing with a business you can rely on.

We Clear All Brush in ALL Terrain in ALL Weather, and that gives us an advantage over other brush clearing service providers. If your groundskeeping needs are urgent, call us.

Our Services

Residential Brush Clearing Services

We strive to prevent the use of pesticides, to control erosion, and to reduce the overall use of combustible fuels associated with conventional clear cutting methods.

Our Portland, OR regional specialties include:

  • Residential brush and blackberry removal
  • Invasive brush removal
  • Land clearing
  • Commercial and residential groundskeeping
  • Forestry mulching and fire fuel reduction

Our professional land clearing services are ideal for severely overgrown lots, steep slopes, and creek beds which are difficult or impossible to clear with a commercial mower. Our brush clearing methods allow us to operate in harsh terrain.

What is EBC?

Blackberry & Invasive Plant Management

The Himalayan (Armenian) blackberry is considered one of the Portland region's most disruptive and pervasive nuisance species. While many residents enjoy harvesting the edible fruit, the plants are officially recognized as Class B noxious weeds in Oregon, indicating their widespread distribution and significant potential impact on the local economy and environmental They rapidly overtake backyards, gardens, and vacant lots, creating impenetrable, thorny walls up to 15 feet high.

They dominate riparian (streamside) areas, contributing to bank erosion and loss of stability. Invasive blackberries outcompete native plants for sunlight and nutrients, eventually leading to a complete loss of local biodiversity.

Blackberry plants are a real problem for residents and cmmercial landowners and managers, and we're here to help address that problem.

Can you see the building?  You'll be able to see ALL of the building after a visit from Extreme Brush Clearing.

Our Mission:
To conquer untamed foliage in the Portland, OR region

We clear brush and tame wild vegetation for commercial and residential customers in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties. If you need brush clearing and brush removal services in the greater Portland, OR region, give us a call. We'll reclaim your property from rampant plant overgrowth.
We specialize in clearing densely overgrown, difficult to reach property.

YOU NEED HORSEPOWER, AND WE HAVE IT.
WE'RE HERE TO HELP.

Reclaim
Your Yard

The "Team"

Meet The Owner

Extreme Brush Clearing CEO and CFO (Chief Foliage Obliterator) Casey Peifer

Casey Peifer

Extreme Brush Clearing
CEO and CFO (Chief Foliage Obliterator)

What IS Extreme Brush Clearing?

Extreme Brush Clearing (transitive verb)
Etymology: Latin 'oblitteratus,' past participle of 'oblitterare.' Date: 1600.

  1. Passionate obliteration of all vegetation rapidly and with force.
  2. All actions pertaining to the acceleration of entropy applied to unwanted vegetation at the molecular level, facilitated by hypervelocity collisions between plant and machine.
  3. To remove utterly, from recognition or memory, all plant matter in a given location.
  4. To annihilate all trace, indication, or significance of plant matter in a given location.
  5. More commonly known as: bush whackin', brush cuttin', aggressive non-chemical defoliation.

396

Satisfied Clients

12033+

Acres Cleared

562

Saw-blades Consumed

276

Yards Reclaimed

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Tactics Ecological Awareness

Forestry Management

Our forestry operations include fire-suppression and prevention of fuel accumulation (i.e. clearing out the combustible dead-fall).

We focus on fuel reduction as a form of fire suppression by creating fire breaks and clearing fence-lines, according to OREGON LAW fire code. The frelines we clear create breaks in vegetation and dead combustible forest debris, thereby decreasing available fuels which would feed a forest fire or create unsafe potential fire hazard conditions.

Our land management and brush clearing operations range from burning brush, clear-cutting, logging of old-growth trees and pruning out invasive plants.

Our philosophy of "no chemicals and no burning" is a core component of our low-impact approach, which builds a nutrient-filled ground cover and minimizes disturbance of soil that helps to prevent soil erosion. We take care to remove only what is needed and we strive to avoid upsetting the delicate balance of the locl ecology.


Forestry Restoration

To balance the effects of habitat loss by development and by natural factors, such as erosion caused by weather or rainfall runoff, or to restore areas which had been previously cleared, we believe in maitaining a forest restoration program to address the needs of local wildlife habitats. To that end, we work to continually expand upon our knowledge of the local ecology and species as well as our knowledge of invasive plant species.

We perform native plant restoration work in a variety of locations, including wetlands, river banks, stream banks, estuarine and coastal areas overgrown with grasses which are not indigenous to the local ecology.


Agricultural Management

We offer our services to commercial and private clientele, and we may be called upon to reclaim pastures and fields and to clear orchards and vineyards in preparation for a new planting season.


Construction Management

We do not rely on heavy equipment, which means we can access areas which hulking machines can not. Among our efforts to assist land developers, we offer single- or multi-site pre-development clearing right-of-way creation and maintenance, clear-cutting for recreational areas such as golf course and parks, and road-side brush removal.


Residential Management

We offer our talents to help residential customers improve views from their homes, reduce brush and debris-based fire hazards on your property, make room for a wider driveway, eliminate storm debris and reclaim unusable land so the home owner may increase the value of their property.


Invasive Plant Species Management Project

Oregon presently has approximately 1.3 million acres of land which have been taken over by Invasive Plant species. The state of Oregon has spent over a billion dollars in restoration projects to control rampant vegetation overgrowth. This problem has led to an epidemic of crop loss, and has negatively impacted livestock health where invasions of poisonous plants are found in grazing areas. Poisonous and invasive plants species can have a negative impact on agricultureby by directly competing with planeted crops. From state forest to city parks, invasive plants have become a growing nuisance.


BEWARE: The plants listed below might be harming your livestock, reducing the value of your properly or merely making you mad. If you are having problems with one of the plant species in the list, get in touch with us today to find out what we can do to help:


  • African boxthorn
  • African couch grass
  • African feathergrass
  • African rue
  • Alfombrilla
  • Ambulia
  • Anchored waterhyacinth
  • Animated oat
  • Argentine screwbean
  • Arrowhead
  • Asian sprangletop
  • Austrian peaweed
  • Barbed goatgrass
  • Benghal dayflower
  • Biddy biddy
  • Borreria
  • Brazilian satintail
  • Broomrape
  • Buffalobur
  • Bull thistle
  • Butterfly bush
  • Camelthorn
  • Canada thistle
  • Cape tulip
  • Catclaw mimosa
  • Cattail grass
  • Chinese waterspinach
  • Coat buttons
  • Cogongrass
  • Coltsfoot
  • Common bugloss
  • Common cordgrass
  • Common crupina
  • Creeping yellow cress
  • Crofton weed
  • Cutleaf teasel
  • Dalmatian toadflax
  • Dense-flowered cordgrass
  • Devil's thorn
  • Diffuse knapweed
  • Dodder
  • Duck-lettuce
  • Dyer's woad
  • English ivy
  • Eurasian watermilfoil
  • European water chestnut
  • Exotic bur-reed
  • False brome
  • Field bindweed
  • French broom
  • Garlic mustard
  • Giant hogweed
  • Giant horsetail
  • Giant knotweed
  • Giant salvinia
  • Giant sensitive plant
  • Goatsrue
  • Gorse
  • Hairy whitetop
  • Halogeton
  • Himalayan blackberry
  • houndstongue
  • Hydrilla
  • Iberian starthistle
  • Italian thisle
  • Itchgrass
  • Japanese knotweed
  • Johnsongrass
  • Jointed goatgrass
  • Jointed prickly pear
  • Kiawe
  • Kikuyugrass
  • King devil hawkweed
  • Kochia
  • Kodo-millet
  • Kudzu
  • Kyasuma-grass
  • Leafy spurge
  • Lens-podded whitetop
  • Liverseed grass
  • Matgrass
  • Meadow hawkweed
  • Meadow knapweed
  • Mediterranean sage
  • Medusahead rye
  • Melaleuca
  • Mesquite
  • Mile-a-minute
  • Milk thistle
  • Miramar weed
  • Missiongrass
  • Monochoria
  • Mosquito fern
  • Mouse ear hawkweed
  • Murain-grass
  • Musk thistle
  • Myrtle spurge
  • Old man's beard
  • Onionweed
  • Orange hawkweed
  • Oxygen weed
  • Paterson's curse
  • Perennial pepperweed
  • Pickerel weed
  • Pilipiliula
  • Plumeless thistle
  • Poison hemlock
  • Policeman's helmet
  • Portugese broom
  • Puncturevine
  • Purple loosestrife
  • Purple nutsedge
  • Purple starthistle
  • Quackgrass
  • Ragweed
  • Red rice
  • Rush skeletonweed
  • Russian knapweed
  • Saltcedar
  • Saltmeadow cordgrass
  • Scotch broom
  • Scotch thistle
  • Serrated tussock
  • Sessile joyweed
  • Short-fringed knapweed
  • Silverleaf nightshade
  • Skeletonleaf bursage
  • Slender flowered thistle
  • Small broomrape
  • Smooth cordgrass
  • South American waterweed, elodea
  • Spanish broom
  • Spikeweed
  • Spiny cocklebur
  • Spotted knapweed
  • Squarrose knapweed
  • St.Johnswort, Klamath weed
  • Sulfur cinquefoil
  • Syrian bean-caper
  • Syrian mesquite
  • Tansy ragwort
  • Texas blueweed
  • Three-cornered jack
  • Tornillo
  • Tropical soda apple
  • Turkeyberry
  • Velvet fingergrass
  • Velvet mesquite
  • Velvetleaf
  • Wetland nightshade
  • Whitetop, hoary cress
  • Wild blackberry
  • Wild blackberry complex
  • Wild proso millet
  • Wild safflower
  • Wild sugarcane
  • Witchweed
  • Woolly distaff thistle
  • Wormleaf salsola
  • Yellow flag iris
  • Yellow floating heart
  • Yellow hawkweed
  • Yellow nutsedge
  • Yellow starthistle
  • Yellow toadflax